Matilde Landeta

Matilde Landeta was born in Mexico City on 20 September 1913, into a well-off family. She followed her brother Eduardo into cinema, became a make-up artist and then a script supervisor, the first woman to hold that post, and did not manage to become an assistant director until 1945, under Emilio Fernández or Julio Bracho, despite the resistance of the union. She directed three films from 1948 to 1951, later translated television programmes and wrote screenplays, then returned to directing in 1991; a special Ariel honoured her in 1992 as a pioneer. She died on 26 January 1999.

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• Feature filmBlack AngustiasLa negra AngustiasMatilde Landeta · 1950Cinema